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NICAR Unsession: "Jobs and Career Straight-Talk: For (and By) Young'uns"

Recent grads and current students who are attending NICAR next week:

Do you have questions on how to break into the field or get an paid internship/job? Simple or impolitic ones that you couldn't ask a boss or hiring manager/editor? Questions about newsroom "culture" or the tacit knowledge required to network or interview for a job?

Sisi Wei and I, both less than three years out of undergrad, are organizing an unsession ("Jobs and Career Straight-Talk: For (and By) Young'uns Only") to share implicit knowledge and job-seeking advice for students or early-career journalists interested in to becoming designer/developer/data journalists. We're aiming to keep the session informal and totally peer-to-peer, and to make this a safe space to ask silly questions, we're asking mid-career journalists and people with hiring power not to attend.

We'd love for employed less-recent-grads who want to share their wisdom to join us (if you're no

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